>>4316197Oh, it is incredibly flimsy, but this is a known concept that the Tsars claimed as a way to hold legitimacy to their reign for hundreds of years. There was even a famous expression from the time by a monk named Philotheus:
>So know, pious king, that all the Christian kingdoms came to an end and came together in a single kingdom of yours, two Romes have fallen, the third stands, and there will be no fourth.If they're allowed this claim, then the legitmacy stands, and frankly the only other claim that's ever often thrown around is the HRE as the successor state, and I will never even entertain the idea of G*rms being legitimate heirs to the Empire in any form, no matter how often they try to claim the right.